Gold Watch, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #24

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 24 March-April 2022 Expand allSummary highlights Sodium cyanide in Kenya’s gold market: controlling a...

Posted on 20 Apr 2022

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A safe haven in the Gulf: Balkan criminals, and their money, are hiding in the United Arab Emirates

...Over the past 20 years, criminal groups from the Western Balkans have become key actors in the global drug trade. Balkan networks are involved in heroin trafficking, cannabis production and traffickin...

Posted on 19 Apr 2022

Author(s): Fatjona Mejdini, Fabian Zhilla

ESA-Obs

The price of civil war: A survey of Somalia’s arms markets

The price of civil war:

...After the publication of the report 'An Iranian fingerprint?’, in November 2021, the current report presents additional findings from the eight-month collection of field data, conducted by GI-TOC fi...

Posted on 19 Apr 2022

Author(s): Jay Bahadur

SEE-Obs

Smuggling of migrants in the Western Balkans

Smuggling of migrants in the Western Balkans

...The Balkan route has been a notorious trail for smuggling drugs from east to west since the 1970s. But in 2015 it took on a new meaning as an estimated 1.5 million asylum seekers and migrants – trig...

Posted on 14 Apr 2022

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro

APA-Obs, ESA-Obs

Crime, conflict and corruption: Nampula as a smuggling hub

Crime, conflict and corruption

...This paper explains why Nampula, the third-largest city in Mozambique, became a hub for various types of contraband smuggling, especially involving illicit environmental commodities. Referred to as â...

Posted on 14 Apr 2022

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan, Alastair Nelson

ENACT

Fugitives, family, fortune seekers and franchisees: Towards understanding foreign criminal actors in Africa

Fugitives, family, fortune seekers and franchisees

...from: enactafrica.org Foreign criminals are a significant presence in Africa. Four typologies of foreign criminal actors are identified, allowing an exploration into why some actors develop mor...

Posted on 14 Apr 2022

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Sanctions and organized crime

The Taliban’s poppy ban redux

...When Afghanistan pledged to halt the world’s biggest opium and heroin supply, it was certain to attract international headlines. That might have been the motivation behind the announcement in early ...

Posted on 13 Apr 2022

Author(s): Shehryar Fazli